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Montana State University pre-service education teacher Vera Grabow leads an elementary student through a microbiology lesson Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, at Cottonwood School near Bozeman. The Rural Teaching Exploration program provides MSU education students a formal classroom experience in one of seven rural Gallatin County schools. MSU photo by Colter Peterson.
A group of seven elementary and middle school-aged students gather around a triangle of three tables in the center of Malmborg School, an octagonal building that has stood on this land on Jackson Creek Road near Bozeman Pass for nearly 120 years.
The students – in first, second, fourth, sixth and eighth grades – use crayons to draw airplanes, flowers, fish and more on their own kite-shaped piece of Tyvek. Some cut lengths of ribbon to serve as streamers. Two Montana State University students, Kylie Fisher and Abby Laverell, help them secure two long black dowels to the Tyvek material. Slowly,...
